WENDY MURPHY: The district attorney should apologize to JonBenet, not to her parents!

Discussion in 'Justice for JonBenet Discussion - Public Forum' started by Cherokee, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. Cherokee

    Cherokee FFJ Senior Member

    (Much thanks to Little for finding this article.)

    WENDY MURPHY: AND JUSTICE FOR SOME:

    The district attorney should apologize to JonBenet, not to her parents!


    http://www.patriotledger.com/opinio...ould-apologize-to-JonBenet-not-to-her-parents

    By Wendy Murphy
    The Patriot Ledger
    Posted Jul 19, 2008 @ 02:15 AM


    Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy recently “cleared†the Ramseys in the death of their daughter, JonBenet. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her home the day after Christmas 1996.

    Much of the evidence has not been revealed to the public but enough is out there to raise serious questions about Lacy’s decision.

    First things first.

    It’s hard to feel confident about anything Mary Lacy says. Remember, she’s the one who accused John Mark Karr of murdering the child even though there was no evidence the guy had ever even been to Boulder, Colo.

    Here’s some food for thought (much of this is in my book, “And Justice For Someâ€):

    Police told John Ramsey they found black wool sweater fibers inside the underpants JonBenet was wearing when her body was found, fibers that matched the Israeli wool sweater John was wearing on the night in question. Ramsey had no explanation for how the fibers could have gotten there, so he just yelled and filibustered – a common tactic when the suspect doesn’t want to, or can’t, answer a particular question. If the facts were different, he might have said the sweater fibers got there through laundering. But the sweater was never washed – it was wool – and the underpants were three sizes too big and had never been worn before.

    The “touch DNA†on the long johns that everyone’s talking about couldn’t have been a “match†to a DNA fragment found in the underpants. The fragment didn’t have enough markers to provide a “match†to anyone. In any case, everyone knows that while DNA can establish that a person was at a particular place, it cannot tell us when, how or why the contact was made.

    The autopsy says the child’s vaginal mucosa showed “chronic inflammation†and “epithelial erosion†and that the hymen had been “eroded.†This means JonBenet had suffered past repetitive penetration. There were also “acute†injuries – meaning there was also penetration on the night in question. If the person who killed the child is the one who caused the prior injuries, it had to have been someone with ongoing intimate access.

    Three search warrants were executed for the Ramsey homes and computers during a search for child pornography. Some items were seized. What were they?

    JonBenet had undigested pineapple in her belly at the time of autopsy, which means she ate it within two hours of death. She died after midnight. The Ramseys told police they brought her home at about 9:30 p.m. and that she was sound asleep. They said she stayed asleep and they put her to bed. A bowl of pineapple was found on the kitchen table. Patsy’s fingerprints were found on the bowl. Both parents adamantly denied giving the child pineapple. Why? What’s so bad about admitting that you gave your child pineapple? The bowl was taken by police, and presumably tested. What were they looking for? Did they perform drug tests? Why? What were the results? Why were the Ramseys asked about the presence of a variety of sedatives in the home, such as Klonopin?

    Within minutes of finding the child’s body, John Ramsey was on the telephone with his private pilot making arrangements to leave for Atlanta. He told police he had business he needed to attend to. He and his wife hired criminal lawyers that same day and refused to submit to separate police interviews.

    These facts – and so many more – may not prove the Ramseys’ guilt. But they are relevant and the public now has a right to demand full disclosure of all the evidence to determine whether Mary Lacy has done her job properly.

    If Lacy feels confident about her decision, she will gladly release at least some evidence to the public.

    If, on the other hand, Lacy knows what she did was wrong, she will refuse to release the files, claiming there’s an “ongoing investigation.â€

    If there were a legitimate concern about the investigation, Mary Lacy would not have revealed so many details about the “touch DNA†tests. Even if there’s a reason to keep some facts secret, there’s no reason to hide the results of tests conducted on the bowl of pineapple. The real killer already knows whether he put something in the pineapple to sedate the child.

    The harder Mary Lacy tries to ignore the public’s demand for full disclosure, the harder the public should push for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

    So help me God, JonBenet deserves it.

    Wendy Murphy is a leading victims rights advocate and nationally recognized television legal analyst. She is an adjunct professor at New England School of Law and a radio talk show host. She can be reached at wmurphy@faculty.nesl.edu.
     
  2. Barbara

    Barbara FFJ Senior Member

    Thank you Cherokee

    What a wonderful piece!

    Oh Punisher..............................she's done it again! :)
     
  3. Cherokee

    Cherokee FFJ Senior Member

    The thanks should go to Little. She is the one who originally found and posted the article. I just transferred it to a new thread. :)
     
  4. Voyager

    Voyager Active Member

    Very Concise article...

    Thanks Little and Cherokee for posting this....Wendy is certainly a welcome advocate and media spokesperson for victims of crime. I am so glad she is publicly commenting on the Ramsey murder case at this time helping to breathe new life into the public discussion of this "cold case."

    Mary Lacey may have made a major misstep in excusing the Ramseys from guilt in this case. She has, it seems, opened a bag of worms as far as more case publicity, public outrage, and a new call for exhumation of JonBenet for further testing with the new DNA technology...I hope Wendy with her radio show and media connections, will continue to bring this case to her audiences for discussion.

    Voyager
     
  5. Show Me

    Show Me FFJ Senior Member

    God bless Wendy Murphy!

    She ripped Mary Lacy a new one and rightly so. In fact so many are ripping Lacy a new one her behind must look like a swiss cheese by now.

    Lacy is ending her so called career as a disgraced prosecutor. I don't know how she can look at herself in the mirror.

    Oh but how much Lacy wanted to prosecute Karr for the crime! Didn't need any evidence...unfortunately the public and Karr's family weren't fooled by this disgusting prosecutor.

    Guess Lacy will end up working for John's buddy Haddon...or maybe Lacy wants to invest in a mall with Hunter. Gotta look out for herself...number one. Forget the victim.
     
  6. BobC

    BobC Poster of the EON - Fabulous Inimitable Transcript

    Bravo! Couldn't argue with a single word.

    Man there is such a huge clue is this synopsis.
     
  7. The Punisher

    The Punisher Member

    DAMN! You beat me to it!
     
  8. RiverRat

    RiverRat FFJ Sr. Member Extraordinaire (Pictured at Lef

    This one?!

    "JonBenet had undigested pineapple in her belly at the time of autopsy, which means she ate it within two hours of death. She died after midnight. The Ramseys told police they brought her home at about 9:30 p.m. and that she was sound asleep. They said she stayed asleep and they put her to bed. A bowl of pineapple was found on the kitchen table. Patsy’s fingerprints were found on the bowl. Both parents adamantly denied giving the child pineapple. Why? What’s so bad about admitting that you gave your child pineapple? The bowl was taken by police, and presumably tested. What were they looking for? Did they perform drug tests? Why? What were the results? Why were the Ramseys asked about the presence of a variety of sedatives in the home, such as Klonopin?"
     
  9. BobC

    BobC Poster of the EON - Fabulous Inimitable Transcript

    The sedatives.
     
  10. RiverRat

    RiverRat FFJ Sr. Member Extraordinaire (Pictured at Lef

    Aha.....so maybe Patsy was trying to help her hyper kids mellow out so that they would fall asleep that night?
     
  11. JC

    JC Superior Cool Member

    Klonopin

    Who had the anxiety or panic disorders?
     
  12. Barbara

    Barbara FFJ Senior Member


    Oops Chero,

    That's what I get for being too lazy to get my glasses before reading and posting; I'm way past the stage where I can do that but your big red letters sucked me in and then....


    (Much thanks to Little for finding this article.)

    What's a girl without her glasses to do???

    THANKS LITTLE :abnormal:
     
  13. Elle

    Elle Member

    Barbara wrote:

    What's a girl without her glasses to do???

    Find a big handsome hunk who can help her. Sorry Barbara, that one was too easy! :)
     
  14. DeeDee

    DeeDee Member

    The autopsy report mentioned that toxicology tests were all negative. PR was drugged up, to be sure, but JBR's body was drug-free. So that poor little girl suffered that hellish night alert and aware.
     
  15. Karen

    Karen Member

    I thought Patsy said she wasn't taking anything, even after her cancer? Afterwards she did but not before according to her LE interviews.
     
  16. The Punisher

    The Punisher Member

    Just to be fair: the autopsy said no drugs were found, but no independent toxicological testing was done.
     
  17. DeeDee

    DeeDee Member

    PR admitted taking anti-anxiety drugs.
     
  18. BobC

    BobC Poster of the EON - Fabulous Inimitable Transcript

    Right. All I'm saying here is that at one point early on investigators were looking at lots of possible scenarios and one was prior sexual molestation--prompted by the fact that there were healed over abrasions in the vagina. There have been lots of cases where sedatives were given to a child to make them unaware that molestation was taking place. I'm not saying that occurred, but it is possible. Even if no sedatives were found in JBR's blood the day after the murder--it doesn't mean that scenario didn't take place in the past. It is not unheard of. I have always wondered why the Ramseys were evasive about what drugs were in the house and what they took in the past. JR talked about taking melatonin to sleep but if I recall correctly, he also said he didn't take anything stronger. What were the drugs used for then?
     
  19. BobC

    BobC Poster of the EON - Fabulous Inimitable Transcript

    When did Patsy admit to taking anti-anxiety drugs? Before the murder or after? I don't remember that but I know investigators found anti-depressants in their garbage, and were surprised
     
  20. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    No doubt Patsy took anti-anxiety drugs during her chemo, right? It's common to prescribe those to patients with such severe illness undergoing the stress of such dangerous medications, I believe.

    And I won't swear to it, considering the time that has gone by and all I've read through the years, but I'm THINKING that Patsy said she took them during her illness...?

    I love Wendy Murphy. She's one of the few professionals who isn't cowed by Team Ramseys, and one of the few who actually knows the case. She made mincemeat out of San Augustin and Ollie on Nancy Grace's show after this RST propaganda cycle started.
     
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